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- noun Plural form of
satin .
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Examples
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On the flamboyance of the times, Ms. Head once described Old Hollywood as a "Barnum & Bailey World," filled with gold bathtubs, ermine bathrobes, and film actresses draped in satins and minks.
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICON OF STYLE: Edith Head, The Most Famous Costume Designer of All Time (PHOTOS, POLL) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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On the flamboyance of the times, Ms. Head once described Old Hollywood as a "Barnum & Bailey World," filled with gold bathtubs, ermine bathrobes, and film actresses draped in satins and minks.
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICON OF STYLE: Edith Head, The Most Famous Costume Designer of All Time (PHOTOS, POLL) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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On the flamboyance of the times, Ms. Head once described Old Hollywood as a "Barnum & Bailey World," filled with gold bathtubs, ermine bathrobes, and film actresses draped in satins and minks.
Lesley M. M. Blume: ICON OF STYLE: Edith Head, The Most Famous Costume Designer of All Time (PHOTOS, POLL) Lesley M. M. Blume 2010
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And he loves his Tib; and is proud to see her come sailing towards him, to order him to bed; arrayed in satins and diamonds; and he is a happy, though rather a cowardly little
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The USA ( UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ) has Become USA( UNITED SATINS ASSOCIATIONS) where the satins are the senators , congressmen , governors and president. varun mahajan
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Her hair was silver, her skin pale, and her satins were a shimmery white and black.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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Her hair was silver, her skin pale, and her satins were a shimmery white and black.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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“The issue of the money has also been completed; but a few moments back, when I went along with several servants to the back upper-loft, in search of the satins, we looked for ever so long, but we saw nothing of the kind of satins alluded to by you, madame, yesterday; so may it not be that your memory misgives you?”
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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Hsi-feng replied: "The issue of the money has also been completed; but a few moments back, when I went along with several servants to the back upper-loft, in search of the satins, we looked for ever so long, but we saw nothing of the kind of satins alluded to by you, madame, yesterday; so may it not be that your memory misgives you?"
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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Almost all the various kinds found in Europe are prepared in Persia, but of much inferior gloss and finish, such as satins, sarcenet, brocades, velvets, plain and every kind of striped silk, and all exceedingly strong and durable, with brilliant colours.
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